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Can fermionic dark matter mimic supermassive black holes?

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

We analyze the intriguing possibility to explain both dark mass components in a galaxy: the dark matter (DM) halo and the supermassive dark compact object lying at the center, by a unified approach in terms of a quasi-relaxed system of massive, neutral fermions in general relativity. The solutions to the mass distribution of such a model that fulfill realistic halo boundary conditions inferred from observations, develop a highly-density core supported by the fermion degeneracy pressure able to mimic massive black holes at the center of galaxies. Remarkably, these dense core-diluted halo configurations can explain the dynamics of the closest stars around Milky Way's center (SgrA*) all the way to the halo rotation curve, without spoiling the baryonic bulge-disk components, for a narrow particle mass range mc210mc^2 \sim 10-10210^2~keV.

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@article{arxiv.1905.09776,
  title  = {Can fermionic dark matter mimic supermassive black holes?},
  author = {C. R. Argüelles and A. Krut and J. A. Rueda and R. Ruffini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09776},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures. Winner of the Third award in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2019. To appear in IJMPD (special issue)

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